Prinergy Virtual Proofing System Plus (VPS+) allows you to preview the printed appearance of pages/artwork and impositions/layouts and identify errors before physical proofs or plates are made. Prinergy VPS+ software allows you to verify image placement and content, impositions and layouts, layered PDF versioning, trapping, screening, front and back registration, color breaks, overprints and knockouts.
VPS+ was developed to replace the original Kodak Virtual Proofing Software (VPS Classic) created more than 25 years ago. The code base for VPS Classic has reached the end of its development life, and is not compatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey or above.
In order to provide soft proofing capabilities for the latest mac operating systems, the viewing features of VPS Classic have been merged with the functionality of Kodak TIFF Assembler Plus software in a new VPS+ code base. In addition to providing a comprehensive set of soft-proofing and quality control tools, VPS+ provides additional flexographic layout and file reformatting tools.
VPS+ is still under active development and while there are some functional gaps with VPS Classic, additional features and performance enhancements are added with each new release of VPS+.
Kodak currently recommends that VPS+ only be installed on macOS systems which don't support VPS Classic. For legacy macOS and Windows systems, we recommend users continue to use VPS Classic until there VPS+ has full feature parity.
The Prienrgy Workshop installer automatically installs VPS+ on macOS systems 10.15, 11.0 and 12.0. The Workshop installer automatically installs VPS Classic on legacy macOS or Windows OS.
VPS+ Modes
Kodak Prinergy VPS+ can operate in two different modes, depending on your production requirements. These modes can be switched in Preferences.
Commercial mode provides a simplified UI familiar to VPS Classic users, and is primarily for viewing of impositions for commercial offset printing quality control. Only Commercial Mode allows front and back viewing of impositions/layouts.
Packaging mode is primarily for flexographic quality control and creation of flexo plate layouts. Packaging mode provides additional utilities and reformatting tools for VPS, LEN and TIFF files.